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insight into the British manners and
methods greater than that possessed by
any recent writer from another country
Che is Frenchman), and presented it in
his amusing and instructive book "John
Bull and His Island,n which captured the
reading public, as it were, by storm. 1t
was full of satire and cutting wit, and
was sayagely abused by the Paris CORE
spondents of the British press; but when
translated and put in the hands of the
British people, it sprang at once into great
popularity. He also wrote "Drat the
Boys, humorous account of bis expert
ence in teaching; "John Bulls Woman
kind, "'sThe Dear Neighbors,' and ''Land
of the Mounseer, ',all noted for happy
description of local and national charac-
ter. AS q result, he is famous and comes
to America to lecture and gather material
for more sketches. .a s5 -A
Paul Blouet--such is his true name
was born in Brittany in 1S4S, was educa-
ted for a soldier in Paris obtained prize
at the Sorbonne and was made an officer
of the academy before he entered the
army. His first campaign was against
the Germans, who captured him at Sc
dan; he was, released in time to serve
against the Paris commune, in which
which incapacitated him for the army and
he was retired on q pension He went to
London to try his hand at journalism,
but became a teacher and married an
educated English lady, who does most of
his translating. He speaks English with
unusual clearness and fiuency, and the
slight accent noticeable in his lectures
only adds to the piquancy of his humor
His nom de plume is the result of pleas
ant romance. His grandfather, Max
Blouet, was surgeon in the
army of the great Napoleon, was
captured and held some time in London,
where he fell in love with beautiful
Irish girl, Miss O'Rell, whom he married
as soon as released. Their grandson com-
bined their names for his nom de plume
He is thus almost as, much Irish as
French, q fact which VIII rather add to
his popularity in Arierica. He has one
complaint to make at the start: that an
irresponsible American publisher has
made SO vile q translation of one of his
books as to make him ridiculous, and
give the impression that his works are
obscene. He will lecture ON the peculiar
differences between the French and Eng
lish, the characteristics of the Scotch and
other topics. He is but 80 years old, in
the vigor of manhood and may look for
ward to many years of good work.
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The baskets are made OF rushes, which
are SO interviewer as to be at the same
time strong and flexible. A cord made of
guanaco sinew, placed across the opening
or the basket, serves as handle To
catch birds they use traps made of thin
and flexible whalebone, in the form of
movable rings, which, being hidden in the
grass, answer the same purpose as the
well known wooden trap for catching
partrdges and other game a
"During the course of the expedition I
tried to enter into friendly relations with
the Onas whom met, but, am sorry to
say, without any success. Instead of cor
responding with our friendly relations and
dispositions, they invariably showed an
undisguised tendency to make war on u.s."
MIR. Baker says that considerable i'm
proyement is going on through the mis-
s;sssssJs uoIh VI o. MT. BrydgeS among
these Indians of TERRA del Fuego Some
Of them have learned English and they
know now how to use firearms The
country is fast becoming better known,
and it should no longer be considered the
tail end of creation, though it is the tail
end of South America.
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GUSTAV Il. KIRCHHoFF. lecturing in Ber
lin on mathematical physics; afterward he
was awarded the highest honors, holding
the position of chief lecturer at Berlin at
the time of his death. In 1859 he made
the discovery which rendered him famous
the cause of the peculiar lines that show
IN the analysis of light from various OBJ
1ects, especially from the sun, and the great
law scientifically expressed thus: "The
relation between the power of emission
and the power of absorption of one and
the same class of rays is the same for all
bodies at the same temperature" But as
this article is for the unscientific, we use
simple and familiar illustration
a ray of light from the sun entering
drop of falling water is divided or resolved
into the colors which in combination form
the color of light, and thus the rainbow is
prodnced. A prism of glass has the same
power Of dividing the SUMS rays. But
early experiments showed that the light
from other burning substances did not
show the same shades of color on division.
Thus if r;ly Of light from lamp burn
ing alcohol and common salt be admitted
to dark chamber through narrow
aperture. divided as above and thrown
upon Il screen, the spectrum shows only
two yellow bands all the other rays OBJ
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ansorptive power in their atmosphere; but
IL can hardly be doubted that they are of
one family with us, and that the sun is
the common parent of all. Mankind in
general are not yet alive to these wonder
1ui discoveries; but when, in the usual
course OF such things, what is now mere
matter OF scientific interest will be made
OF vast practical use, men will place in
the list OF the worlds great benefactors
the name of Gustav Robert Kirchhoff.
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THE .SPECTROSCOPE.
AND HOW IT WAS UTILIZED ey
GUSTAV ROBERT kIRcHHoFF,

ahe wonderful Instrument by which we
Arc Able to Determine the Comnonent
Parts of the Sun and the stars-Fraun-
hofers Lines Popularity Explained.
Inc announcement of the death of the
renowned savant, Gustav Robert Kircb-
non, at Berlin, brings to the mind of all
lovers of knowledge realizing sense of
the great work he did; for it is to this
man we owe most we know about the
consultation of the sun and fixed stars.
Since kirchhoff made his first discoveries.
or rather since he perfected the processes
OF discovery science has laid open q new
universe. We now know the ultimate
composition of light, the very substance
OF The sun, the method of its incandes-
ccnce, the very metals which float as
Vapor in its superheated envelope or boil
IN Its molten mass; and we know. too
that the sun and the fixed stars are COM
posed of the same substances, though in
varying proportions, as those which form
our earth-iron, nickel and cobalt, ithia
and calcium, oxygen and hydrogen.
Kirchhoff was born at Konirsberp.
March 12, 1924 and from his earliest
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An Old Coup1et.
Tho couDlet

Inc coupleG
For he that fights and runs away
May live TO fight another day,
will be found in Goldsmith's cart of Writing
Poetry ON New Plan Buffers "Hudibras.n
written about 100 years before Goldsmith,s
version, contains the following:
For those that fly may fight again.
Which he can never do that's slain.
Rays History of the Rebellion" Q75g and
Udall's translation of Erasmus Q442 ex-
press the same idea in almost the identi
cal language Of Goldsmith, allowing for the
more primitive state of the language in
Udall's time. Ray gives it:
He that fights and run away
May turn and fight another day.
In Udall's translation from Erasmus the
couplet is:
That same man that runneth awaie
Maize again fight another daie
The last is the earliest English expression
OF the thought, which can be traced to Ter
tullian, who lived in the Second century.
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LITERARY PHILADELPHIA.

Marquis Biddle-C Cope now lives in Rome
Mrs. Bloomfield Moorei is worth $4,000, 600.
Rev. Samuel Longfellow las gone back to
New England sas & ssaf s4H
Foster Kirke's history of Charles the Bold
was success. as ~
Mrs. A. l. Wister is a sister of Horace
Howard Furness
The author known as Henry Hayes is
Foster Kirke's wife.
Frank stockton's sister Louise is showing
good deal Of talent
Wayne MacVeagh is said to be writing
history of Pennsylvania.
John Bach McMaster, the historian, u
called tic American Macanlay
Rev 4. q. Thompson is considered an
autllerity On economic questions.
Horace Howard Furness, the Skakespearean
sclaoaar, IS deep IN spiritualistic researches
Mrs Kirke and Mrs. Rebecca Harding
Davis have achieved wide popularity as
writers. M
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cCoRDISG TO KIRCnHoFF AM

SPECTRA ACCORDING TO K1RCHHOFF AND
BUNSEN.
tainable from sunlight being absent.
Burning platinum casts nearly the same
spectrum as the sun, while sodium, lith-
ium and potassium show colored bands
separated by blank spaces. 1t is plain
that such knowledge needed only to be
systematized to enable the scientist to de-
termine the substances in any burning OBJ
ject; and early in this century Fraunhofer
perfected spectroscope with which he
separated ray from the sun so that he
mapped upon the screen 576 clearly dis
tinct lines. This was regarded as such a
marvellous achievement that these have
since been known among scientists as
''Fraunhofer's lines" Subsequent expert
menters greatly improved upon his meth
ods by what is called collimating tele-
scope, and with this Kirchhoff succeeded
in dividing sun ray till it showed over
5000 lines!
In 1855 Tyndall used prisms of rock salt
and other improved appliances, and proved
true the hypothesis of Herschel that the
'tinvisible rays of the sun far exceed the
visible in number, but in 1859 Kirchhoff
had made the most important discoveries,
enabling scientists thereafter to analyZe
the substance of the sun ut their leisure.
Dark bars of various length were also OBJ
served across the fine lines of the spec
trum, and it was shown that the same
substance at the same heat, or casting
ray of light, produced the same bars at the
same points in the spectrum. The demon
stration was complete. Spectrum analysis
took its place as recognized branch
of science. TO speak of Kirchhoff as the
inventor would be unjust to Herschel,
Fraunhofer Brewster, Draper and many
others, but he systematized the knowledge
and demonstrated the certainty of each
step in the discovery and by methods
chiefly invented by himself. He it was
who perfected the scale or map on which
every gradation of line or hue can be ac-
curately fixed, and from which it can be
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EDUCATIONAL GLEANINGS

Since 1870 the enrolled school population of
the south has increased 800 per cent. sf..
The marquis of Butte contemplates erecting
and endowing Catholic training college on
the Falkland estate, Fifeshire, Scotland This
estate cost him e25O, 900. a @9 5
Switzerland includes singing among the
branches required in the common schools,
and sets apart an appropriate time for in
structIon in that branch.
Woman's rights are well recognized in por-
tions of the west. Iowa has ten women who
discharge creditably the duties entailed upon
county superintendent of schools. u
A benevolent resident of Chicago will equip
a training school for nurses to be connected
with the Pittsfield (Mass) house of mercy, as
a memorial to his son, Henry W. Bishop Sd.
who died about two years ago while attend
ing Williams college. the cost win not ex-
ceed $3.50 h
Il That the American government appreciates
and honors men eminent for their culture
was never more satisfactorily illustrated than
by the recent appointment of President An
geI, OF Michigan university, to act with the
secretary OF state in negotiating q aenew fish
cry treaty with Great Britain. .s4e4- "a ga -
A memorial to Helen Hunt Jackson and
her labors in behalf of tho Indians will be the
Ramona Indian Girls school, now I'M process
of building at Santa Fe, NJ M The buildin.
will cost $50, 900, and viii accommodate $50
pupils. Students will be retained from, two
to five years. "A New York architect con-,
tributed the design, which is patterned to
some entent, ON the old cliff dwellings, of New
Mexico and Arizona. so 8sseau IS haag 9ts
Z When speaking of his proposed university
Senator Leland Stanford, of California, re-
Gently said: 1T will be built with q sole re-
gard to the poor. No rich mans son or
daughter will want to go there Due regard
will be had to every want OF the pupils, but
nothing ornate or grand win be allowed. This
institution will absorb my wealth, and be q
monument to the memory of my son. The
poor alone will be welcome; it win not be
built for the richn S et9y
Ehe fact that lively interest in college
athletics does not always prevent young
man from using due diligence in prosecuting
bis studies is well Illustrated in the case Of r..
2. Speer, one of Princeton's strongest foot
ball players. Mr.. Speer leads his class, 4
very large one, by the way, in scholarship.
At the same time his kicking ability is so
great that he win probably be ono IF Prince
tons football eleven for the season of 'Sss.
Speer is q son Of Milton N. Speer, the promi-
nent Pennsyl ylvania Democrat e
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crrio,.s Fact In Photogr.pl,y.

4 DR.. John Vansant. of the United States
Marine hospital at ST. Louis, claims to be the
first to have taken photographs by the light
of frefiies He placed twelve flrefiies in q
three ounce bottle, covering its mouth with
fine white bobinet. The average duration OF
the fash of each insect was half q second. and
the luminous area on the abdomen was about
one-eightL OF an inch square. The time Of
exposure was fifty flashes.
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music and society. But when he took up
the violin he seemed transformed; he felt
all that he played. In slow adagio
movement in the minor key he looked
sad, III q lively strain his facial expression
was vivacious to q degree that often ex-
cited laugh. At times he would rush
about the stage or roorn-,iever missing Ii
note, however-and one occasion he moved
thrice around the room. halted before the
wrong chair and sat down on the lap of
young lady! He sprang up, turned,
bowed and moved on to his place, without
missing a note. He was an ardent
patriot, too, and in the most brilliant sue
cesses of his foreign tours never forgot
his beloved Hungary, or ceased to be
proud Of his service In her army. - 'sss =
Edward Remenyf was born LII 1885, in
the village of Hewes, Hungary. His
family was of the middle class and able to
give him fine education, He studied
music quite young, and was pupil of the
noted Joachim at the Vienna conserva-
tory. The revolutions of 164S shock
Europe when he was not quite 1S; he
abandoned all for country, enlisted in the
Hungarian army and served on the staff
OF Gorgey. The struggle was soon over
and Remenyi was IN. exile with Kossuth
and many Others. He reached the United
States in 1850, and soon acquired some
reputation as a violinist, after which he
went to Germany and studied with Iiszt
at Weimar; the two soon became such
warm friends that Liszt invited Remenyi
to make his home. with him, an offer
gladly accepted. Remenyi next estab-
lished himself in Paris, where his marvel
Gus rendition of the gypsy music and
national airs of Hungary made him
famous. Eis last tour in America, from
1850 to. 1884, was a noted success; in the
latter year he organized q concert com
pany for d tour around the world, and
now the information comes that he was
drowned in q shipwreck off the coast of
MADAGASCAR
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THINGS WORTH KNOWING.

& For children there is nothing better than
saffron tea for teething and fever
A pint of mustard seed added to a barrel OF
cider will keep the liquid sweet for an indef-
mite time
In case of q cut, smoke the wound with
burned red flannel on which has been placed
small quantity of sugar, then tie up, after
sprinkling with sulphur, and it will heal I'M
mediately saF. .
Equal parts of ammonia and turpentine
win take paint out of clothing, no matter how
dry and hard it may be. Saturate the spot
two or three times, then wash out in soapsuds
Peach stains may be removed by putting
the article in boiling water before washing
it. Once the suds have touched them the
stains are set and cannot afterwards be re-
moved.
To clean bottles, put into them some ker-
nels of corn and tablespoonful of ashes;
half fill them with water and after vigorous
shaking and rinsing you viii find the bottles
as good as new. ~. es..=s
To cure warts take an Irish potato and cut
a piece off the end and rub on the wart two
or three times day, cutting slide from the
potato each timo usod Vary often one no
tato is sufficient for the cure 5esfass a7
Toset the black in home eolored woolen
goods SO it will not smut, soak the colored
goods or wool over night in sweet milk, ring
it out and dry, they rinse well through water,
and the color will be as fast as it can be.
A nice accessory to closet without draw
ers, suitable for laying in nice dress, is to
make ono Or moro bags to cover nice dress,
and thus protect it from dust. These bags
are made longer than tho dress skirt and but
ton up and are hung up by loops.
Candied fruit should always be kept in the
dark to preserve its rich color and flavor
Tomatoes will often spoil in glass Jars, be-
coming thin and watery simply from the ae-
ton OF the light, and preserves thus lose
much Of their richness and flavor, Try keep
ing all fruit in covered chest or trunk
down cellar, If you have no inclosed cupboard
there. 4s Eie8 6aaz aSs III 8 :
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why Fsobby r.efusesl.

MiEister-And so the little boys asked
you TO play niarlles on Sunday. Bobby,
AMI YOU rcfuscds
I.obby--Yes, sir
siinister-Now tell me why it was,
Bobby, that you refused.
Bobby-Caus they wouldn't play for
keeps York Sun.
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An Old Saxine

Necessity is the mother of invention.
This is very old aphorism, dating back over
200 years. Its origin is attributed to Franek's
Northern Memoirs written in the year
1858 These memoirs, however, were not
printed until 1904, and twenty-five years be-
fore tho appearance of said publication tl6729
tho idea was expressed in Wycherlys .sLove
in a Wood, ? act iii, scene 5. George Farqu-
har also makes use of it in his Twin Rivals, p
act l. produced in i7O5.
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- - s5ss 80 $50 THE WASP. ss5 s5sssA tsss75sS7
: of interest TO several nations. The Wasp
and her sister, the Rather, were the first
of an entirely new type of gun vessels
built by Sir w. Armstrong & Co. at New
castle-on-T Tyne and by an odd coincidence
the Wasp was named for somewhat
smaller vessel, wrecked three years ago.
I 1t carried six guns and had two engines
one Of 670 horse power and the other Of
1,O00-and there were seventy-three per-
sons on board, seven officers, fifey-fiye
seamen, three boys and eight marines.
Lieut.. Commander B. j. H.. Aaam-
son commanded There is stil1 some faint
hope that the vessel may have been driven
eastward and sought shelter in port OF
the Philippine Islands, but the probabili-
ties are that she is at the ocean bottom,
which viii be d bad recommendation for
the other new vessels OF that class
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.yshe Lost Man Of war.

: The British public is grieving over the
{ loss of HIM S. Wasp, a gunboat which left
Singapore in September for Shanghai, and
has not been heard from OF itself this
woufd not greatly interest the rest of the
Z world, but it is noted now because every
indication OF the seaworthiness orGunsea.
worthiness of the new class of gunboats is
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NEWSPAPER DECISIONS

/. Any one who takes a paper regularly from ~
F0stodce-whether directed to his name or another
or whether he has subscribed or MOTIFS Responsible
Tor the payment.
D.. 1t person orders his paper discontinued, h.
must pay all arrearages, or the publisher will cone
tinue to send until payment is made and collect the
Wpole amount, whether the paper lie taken from the
Office or not. '0
8. The courts have decided that refusing to take
tne newspapers or periodicals from the Postoce or
removing and leaving them uncalled for is primo
fGeis evidence of intentionalfr fraud,
Papers ordered to any address can be changed to
Remittances by draft check, money order or regis.
tered letter. may te sent at risk All Postmasters
are required to register letters on application.
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sary. In Hyde park, where so many
striotous demonstrations have been
made, reporters tell us that the shrubbery,
statues, etc, are still intact Imagine a
g New York mob of 10000 men in Hyde
park. We may safely say that the Brit
ish government has been in this world o
long time and has got some things down
pretty fine 1''@ sfs a'=e ssass'a' s1S
Among the cuts given with this article
is one of the arrest of Sir Wilfred Blunt,
the Irish patriot. a.f,r ..sas4a.s. ~es,ss..,
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jaw Goulsl,s Yacht.

The following are the dimensions of Mr..
Goulds water palaces: Over all length, $50
feet inches; water line, 233 feet Q inches
draft, a5 feet inches. Cramp & Son, Phila-
delphia, builders.
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youth was an en-
thusiastic devotee
of science. Ex-
periments in cleo
tricity, made be-
fore he reached
manhood, result
ed in some discov-
cries which caus-
ed him, in 1845,
to publish an es.
say on the passage
of the electric cur
rent t hrou G h
planes. In 1948,
at the early age of
"a, he commenced
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reader may think;
ut.'Max O'Rell"
is just now con-
sidered by the
critics the coming
man in humorous
literature of the
h ighc or order.
Only three years
900 he was an nm.
known teacher of
French in St.
Paul's hool,
London, helping
out his income by
occasional Lon
don letters to the
Paris press. In
his London work
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A GREAT vlOLlNlST.
The. Late Edward Renenyi and His
Musical Career.

Musical Career.
Edward Remenyi is dead. The only
violinist whose American tour rivaled or
outdid that of Ole Bull has surrendered
his wondrous gift to it's Divine author.
To many thousand lovers of harmony the
announcement of his death brought the
grief incident to q personal loss; for while
statesmen and artists are only admired, it
is often the fortune of great musicians to
be tenderly loved And Remenyi, though
quite eccentric in some respects, was a
man to excite the warm affections of those
most familiar with him. He spoke six
languages almost perfectly, and two more
sufficiently to be understood; add that he
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Spectroscopic analysis has also shown
that the fixed stars are like the sun in
general constitution; but important spe-
citic differences are found, especially be-
tween those which shine with white anu
those with red light. Aldebaran, Ior m
stance. contains hydrogen, sodium, mag
nesium. iron, telfurium, calcium, bismuth,
antimony and mercury; but in Betelgense
hydrogen is wanting Comets show dif-
ferent clements, or in very different pro-
nortions, in the nucleus and tail. inc
stars have been divided into four great
classes. corresponding to these minor
variations of their substance; puI
enough is proved % impress t,,s+ upon II,
the material universe is composed or
the the same substances, all resolvabie into
tho the prime elements found on our earth
frhe planets shine only by reflected ngnt,
and SO the spectroscope can prove oniy an
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was q man of
great general cul-
ture as well as q
m u sicia S and
that he II ver.
wearied of con-
versation, and 1t
will be plain why
personal friends
were SO deeply at.
tached to him.
He was q strictly
temperate man
his only intoxica-
tiOn was found in